Cigarette package



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CIGARETTE PACKAGE Filed Feb. 19, 1959 Ii g.Z

I N VEN TOR. flaa /and h'o wara' Carmichael ECKHOFF 4' SLICK amvers 154.44 4- member of The fir Unid .Fitat EEGARETTE PACKAGE Filed Feb. 19, 1959, Ser. No. 794,442

1 Claim. (Cl. 206-41) This invention relates to an improved and novel form of cigarette package.

Many cigarettee smokers are satisfied with a puff 01 two, after which the cigarette is discarded. For example, some well-known golfers, characteristically and habitually, light a cigarette while lining up a putt, tossing the cigarette away as soon as this has been achieved, and after only one or two drags on the cigarette.

In accordance with the present invention, it is proposed to provide a shortie cigarette, one which is approximately half the length of the usual king size cigarette. Further, and in accordance with this invention, such short cigarettes are packed in a novel form of package such that the smoker has available in overall amount the equivalent of the usual package of twenty cigarettes. Thus, a smoker can indulge his fancy with a cigarette whenever he desires, and this with an expenditure approximating that required for a full pack of twenty cigarettes. Yet, each cigarette is sufficient only for a casual two or three puffs and then is thrown away.

It is in general an object of this invention to provide a novel, simple, and improved cigarette package in which the cigarettes are of such a length that they approximate half the length of a king size cigarette.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a novel and improved cigarette package.

The invention includes other objects and features of advantage, some of which, together with the foregoing, will appear hereinafter wherein the present preferred form of cigarette package embodying this invention is disclosed. In the drawing accompanying and forming a part hereof,

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the cigarette package partially opened and preparatory to being put into use.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the assembled package, while Figure 3 is a side elevation of the assembled package shown in Figure 2.

Referring to the drawing, I provide two cigarette containers 6 and 7. Each of these contains twenty fullpacked cigarettes, with or without tips or filters, as desired, and otherwise like a normal cigarette except that each is of approximately half the length of a usual king size cigarette. 'Ihus, instead of being approximately atent ice 3.25" in length, the individual cigarettes are each 1.625" in length.

Each of the packages 6 and 7 is of the construction normally employed in a cigarette package such as is disclosed in Figure 5 in the Hovland Patent, 2,881,970. For example, as typical of this, I have shown each as provided with the so-called flip top lid, 8. A tearable hinge strip 9 is provided across the underside of each package, joining them together so that they may be moved with respect to one another.

Normally, the packages move in commerce in that form in which they appear in Figures 2 and 3, i.e., the two sections are held together as by the applied revenue stamp 11. When it is desired to break or to open the packages, it is necessary to break the revenue stamp, as is shown in Figure 1. When this has been achieved, one can remove one of the usual tear strips 12 and so remove the outer cellophane cover, which has been omitted in the drawing for purposes of illustration. With the revenue stamp broken, the packages can be moved into that position shown in Figure 1 wherein one can withdraw a cigarette readily from either of the packages. When joined, as in Figures 2 and 3, the package is the size of the usual king size package.

From the foregoing, I believe it will be apparent that I have provided a novel, simple, and improved cigarette package.

I claim:

In combination, a first rectangular cigarette package having a lid, said package being about one-half the length of a conventional cigarette package, said lid being of a reclosable type and being hinged solely along one longitudinal edge of said package constituting the top thereof; a second rectangular package identical in structure to said first cigarette package and having a lid identical in structure and placement to the said lid of said first package; said packages being oriented in an end to end relationship with the top portions of the lids thereof abutting one another, said packages being held in a unitary relationship partially by means of a sheet of tearable material aflixed one-half to the rear of each package whereby to form a hinge between said packages and partially by a rectangular piece of paper afiixed onehalf to the front of each of said packages, each of said packages being filled with cigarettes having a length about one-half the length of a conventional cigarette.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 276,171 Fraser Apr. 24, 1883 2,046,484 Ringler July 7, 1936 2,230,625 Naugle Feb. 4, 1941 2,383,728 Little Aug. 28, 1945 2,456,059 Groupe Dec. 14, 1948 2,579,443 Snyder Dec. 18, 1951 2,881,970 Hovland Apr. 14, 1959 FOREIGN PATENTS 358,560 Great Britain Oct. 9, 1931 

